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SU Plays Key Role in Search for Elusive Dark Matter
The ongoing search for invisible dark matter is the subject of a recent article involving physicists from The College of Arts and Sciences. Research by Richard Schnee, assistant professor of physics, is referenced in Symmetry magazine, a joint publication of…
Smullen to Discuss ‘Ways and Means for Managing Up’
F. William Smullen, director of the National Security Studies program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and professor of public relations at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will discuss his new book on Tuesday, April…
Inauguration Day Press Kit: Biography of Chancellor Kent Syverud
Kent Syverud is Chancellor and President of Syracuse University. Appointed by the University’s Board of Trustees in September 2013, he assumed the leadership post in January 2014, becoming the 12th leader of the University since its founding in 1870. Chancellor…
Falk Students, Faculty Advocate for Women’s Right to Adequate Nutrition at UN Meetings
Students in the Falk College’s new graduate course, FST 700, “Gender, Food and Rights,” attended the United Nations’ annual Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings during spring break. Led by food studies Professor Anne Bellows, three students—Melanie Shaffer-Cutillo,…
Deep Findings
When Cathryn Newton helped discover the USS Monitor in 1973, she was dealing with not just the most famous shipwreck of the Civil War (and of all U.S. naval history), but a paleontological and archaeological find of “epoch” proportions. “Shipwrecks…
Evacuation Drill Schedule for Academic and Administrative Buildings
The Environmental Health and Safety Services Office (EHSS) will conduct the spring 2014 evacuation drills in academic and administrative buildings from April 14 through April 18. The building drills will be conducted between 9:30-11:30 a.m. or between 1:30-9 p.m., according…
Inauguration Symposium to Address What Makes a University Great
As part of the inauguration festivities on Friday, April 11, Chancellor Kent Syverud has invited a distinguished and diverse panel of SU experts to participate in a thoughtful conversation about “Great Universities in the Next 25 Years.” The symposium will…
Getting to Know: Assistant Professor Barbara Stripling, President of the ALA
The idea that access to libraries–and to the information, materials and guidance available therein is a right community members should be guaranteed–is a platform that has taken Barbara Stripling to all corners of the United States and around the world….
IBM’s Enterprise Machine Loan Boosts Computer Capacity, Partnership
A level of computing power comparable to “a cloud in a box,” and typically accessible only from the inside of an enterprise-class computing work environment, is now available to students and faculty at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) daily,…
Rebuilding Homes and Hope
Steffi Francis’ 14 and Denisse Ortiz ’17 planned for the hard work and long days as they painted, cleaned and caulked their way through houses being rebuilt from Hurricane Sandy. They didn’t expect the greatest rewards would be in something less tangible.